Stylistic Devices

“She throws back her head and opens her mouth wide, and her clear high voice floats across the valley like birdsong.”
(Ken Follett “The Hammer of Eden” (1999) Fewcett Crest Publishers, page 4)

“He and she had always fought like cats but she sulked for days once he was gone.”
(Tracy Chevalier “Girl With a Pearl Earring” (1999) Harper Collinns Publishers, page 9)

“The hundreds of faces staring at them looked like pale lanterns in the flickering candlelight.”
(J. K. Rowing “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone” (1997) Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, page 87)
“Dumbledore’s silver hair was the only thing in the whole Hall that shone as brightly as the ghosts.”
(ibid, page 91)

METAPHORE

“The world is a needle.”
(Margaret Laurence “The Stone Angel” (1985) Bantam-Seal Books, page 274)

“Only a nosy old cat like you could have such a thought.”
(D.H. Lawrence “Sons and Lovers” (1996) Penguin Books Ltd, page 5)…